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Carol Becker in Conversation with Kamila Shamsie | Book Launch

Carol Becker, Distinguished Scholar-in Residence at Georgetown University Qatar, talks about her new memoir George’s Daughter

March 16, 2025 @ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Library, Georgetown University in Qatar

A woman with curly brown hair smiles gently, resting her chin on her hand. She wears a dark top, colorful chunky bracelets, and drop earrings, with a teal-blue background behind her.

About

Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita of Columbia University School of the Arts. She is the author of Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production; Artist in Society: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities; and Losing Helen: An Essay. She was Dean of Faculty and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before arriving at Columbia University.

Moderated by Kamila Shamsie, Inaugural Writer-in-Residence, GU-Q

Speakers

Carol Becker

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Kamila Shamsie

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